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>Each octopus tentacle, however, acts autonomously as it feels around for food or threats. The brain can take over if necessary, but their decentralised nervous
by DarkTree 11y ago
>Each octopus tentacle, however, acts autonomously as it feels around for food or threats. The brain can take over if necessary, but their decentralised nervous systems make octopuses less dependent than vertebrates on transmitting long-range signals through their bodies.
The only way I could imagine this is by holding hands of two toddlers. They are attached to you, acting autonomously, but you could (pretty much) order them around.
It's like trying to imagine what it's like to be blind, you can't.
- StavrosK 11y agoIt's probably more like breathing.
- ZeroFries 11y agoRight. They can probably let their tentacles drift in and out of their awareness similar to how we let awareness of our breath drift in and out. The buddhist octopus is aware of its tentacles but not controlling of them.
- Rangi42 11y ago"An octopus is probably something like an unruly parliament of snakes ruled by a dog." —Andreas Schou